Mobile gaming revenues to top $1.5 billion by 2014
In 2010, 64 million people will play mobile games at least monthly. According to a new eMarketer report, this number will rise to 94.9 million by 2014.
According to comScore, smartphone gamers now account for 42% of the total mobile gaming audience.
eMarketer expects that revenue from mobile gaming will reach nearly $850 million this year, mostly coming from paid downloads.
By 2014, mobile gaming revenues are predicted to reach over $1.5 billion.
Over the same period, it is predicted that ad support will account for 6.5% of revenues in 2010 and 12.3% of the total in 2014.
However, mobile still makes up only a small section of all gaming revenues. According to TNS and Newzoo, just 4% of US video game revenues came from mobile this year.